Michael Griffin, 56, walked into the pharmacy on Eighth Avenue near 34th Street last Monday and allegedly swiped gas relief medication, a fruit cup, and a package of Acai Berry Capsules from the shelves, cops said.

A security guard saw him trying to walk out without paying, and police were called, cops said.

He was arrested and charged with burglary, authorities said.

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An Upper West Side prowler stealing electronic gadgets from restaurants was finally arrested after he was caught on surveillance swiping a portable video game player, cops said.

Joseph Allen, 36, allegedly broke into the workers’ changing room at Café Runda on Columbus Avenue near West 72nd Street on June 17 at 7:45 p.m. and swiped the PlayStation Portable from a locker, cops said.

An hour later, he asked to use the bathroom at Pappardella’s on Columbus Avenue and 75th Street. Instead, Allen slipped into the office and grabbed a laptop before fleeing, sources said.

The first incident was caught on camera, and Allen was busted Tuesday, authorities said.

Brooklyn

It wasn’t child’s play.

A bat-wielding lunatic was arrested after he got in a fight involving his younger cousin and another neighborhood boy in Flatbush, authorities said.

Paul Munro, 28, allegedly pointed the bat at the older brother of his cousin’s nemesis and taunted him last Tuesday night on Midwood Street near Rogers Avenue.

A fight broke out, and Munro swung the bat at the victim, sources said.

Munro fled, but he was later arrested on charges of assault and attempted assault, according to authorities.

Queens

Detectives were probing the fatal shooting of a man in a car in South Jamaica yesterday.

Devone Reaves, 39, was shot several times as he sat in the vehicle on South Road and Sutphin Boulevard at about 9:30 a.m. Reaves, who police sources say had prior drug arrests, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Cops were searching for a motive and a suspect.

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Meow!

Two female pals were busted after they got into a vicious fight in a South Jamaica home, cops said.

During a heated dispute, Shantee Williams, 25, shoved Gina Harrison, 26, inside Harrison’s home on Bedelle Street near Linden Boulevard on June 7, said cops.

Harrison clocked Williams in the forehead, then they began yanking each other’s hair, cops said.

Harrison was treated at a local hospital for minor injuries.

Both were arrested and charged with assault, according to a spokesman for DA Richard Brown.

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Some friend.

A deranged man destroyed the mailbox of a female acquaintance in South Jamaica and then resisted being cuffed, cops said.

Brandon Attmore, 21, knocked his pal’s mailbox to the ground on April 24 on 119th Avenue and 164th Street, cops said.

When police arrived and tried to arrest him, Attmore flailed his arms and resisted, cops said.

Bronx

A prostitute dropped the dime on an ex-con for sexually abusing her after they were both hauled into the 41st Precinct station house in Longwood on unrelated crimes, authorities said yesterday.

The 22-year-old hooker, whose name was withheld, was busted for disorderly conduct and brought to the station house at about 11 a.m. Tuesday.

While she was being issued a summons, the hooker spotted ex-con James Schlau, 46, who had just been arrested for illegally possessing a gravity knife, cops said.

On June 16, Schlau allegedly tried to rape her outside his car on Garrison and Longfellow avenues.

The hooker told cops and Schlau was charged with attempted rape and sexual abuse.

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The police are asking for help in locating a 54-year-old man who disappeared from his Bedford Park home.

Robert White, 54, was last seen in front of his home on Rochambeau Avenue near East Gun Hill Road last Sunday at 3 p.m., cops said.

Sources said the 6-foot-tall man, who suffers from schizophrenia, was reported missing by his social worker and police do not suspect foul play.